“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”

— Epictetus

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”

— Samuel Beckett

“Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.”

— Albert Camus

“The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

“One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.”

— Victor Hugo

“We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.”

— Karl Popper

“The more one suffers, the more, I believe, has one a sense for the comic.”

— Søren Kierkegaard

“Rooted in freedom, bonded in the fellowship of danger, sharing everywhere a common human blood, we declare again that all men are brothers, and that mutual tolerance is the price of liberty.”<...

“The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.”

— Charles Bukowski

“Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.”

— Erich Fromm

“Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”

— Will Durant

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”

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“It is sad not to be loved, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.”

— Miguel de Unamuno

“The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”

— Gertrude Stein

“We are as forlorn as children lost in the woods. When you stand in front of me and look at me, what do you know of the griefs that are in me and what do I know of yours.”

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“Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.”

— Wallace Stevens

“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.”

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“Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.”

— Immanuel Kant